Does anyone still use... a Filofax?

Associate
Joined
11 Nov 2004
Posts
306
Location
Reading
I am the person who shunned paper diaries for years, an advocate of PDAs and smart phones but lately, I have been struggling to manage the mountain of tasks that are being chucked on me, outside of my job I run a small business and also I have a fairly frantic social life, and keeping track of not only what is happening, but what has happened is getting to be a pain.

I tend to find quickly scribbling down an appointment or to-do on my iPhone can be a time consuming, and I can't just flick through things afterwards.

My plan is to use a Filofax type organiser for day-to-day recording of future meetings, important notes from the day (to follow-up et.c) and to-dos, then transcribing appointments into Outlook (which I must admit I HATE) to be synced via Exchange to my iPhone purely for alarms.

So does anyone else still use a Filofax type jobbie day to day? Or am I the only person going back to the stone age?
 
I tried it for a few months and it just wasn't for me.


The biggest problem I found was getting it out, opening it up, getting a pen, finding the right page etc etc.


Seemed to be a lot easier on a smartphone.

It was a lovely thing to carry around though.


Ended up on the bay...
 
I always carry a nice little notebook with me and a pen at work, so handy!

polynotes1.jpg
 
I was tempted by the notepad concept, I just can't reorganise it as easily. Part of the Filofax concept for me is also keeping notes on the 4 opensource hardware and software projects I'm working on when I get a snap thought!

I think one big issue is 90% of my calls (work and personal) are on my iPhone, which makes it a pain to add calendar entries or make notes.

I'm rather used to keeping notes as I have an engineering log book at work (which never leaves the building etc.) and i always had it drilled in to use a log book where ever I was so paper based seems quite natural.

I'm probably going to pick one up of the 'bay next week, only a cheap one, worst case it goes back on near Xmas with a 2011 diary in it!
 
Back
Top Bottom